The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-21
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! tail liquor dealers who are licensed by the
! National Government and do an active trade
| A GAINESVILLE, ILL, turkey gobbler stole a
guinea-hen's nest, set on the eggs, Matched the
chicks, and is raising them with assidulty and
care.
PoCKETBooKs of rattlesnake skin, with the
genuine rattles sewed on the side are among
tine novelties to be introduced this brilliant au-
tumn.
A CHECK for million and three-quarters ster-
ling was paid TO the Bridgewater Navigation
Company lately for its work on the Manchester
Ship Canal.
A SOLDIERS MONUMENT was unveiled Saturday
at Braddock, Pa The site Of the monument
overlooks the historic spot where Gen. Braddock
met his disastrous defeat July 8, 1855.
A BUFFALO CANARY has miniature well in
its cage, with a bucket, the cham of which
reaches to its perch. When it wants drink it
draws up the bucket, much to the delight of the
children in the neighborhood.
A WOMAN down in Maine has a collection of
more than 800 kinds of candy, and she is consd
cred great blessing to the town in which She
lives. All the flies i'll the village collect about
her house and stay there the season through.
WILLIAM MILAN, merchant of St. Joseph,
Mo. has gone to Australia to marry a young
lady whom he has never seen, but with whom
the engagement was brought about by cores
pondence. The lady is a. handsome heress and
milan is also rlCl.
PROF. F. A. MARSH says that we spend at
least S100,0oO,0o0 paying printers and publishers
for sprinkling our booFs and papers with silent
letters. We ought to be willing to pay a great
deal more than that to silence about three
quarters of the writer's.
SURVEYORS going over the line between Wash
ington and Greene counties Pennsylvania
found one house so situated that the husband
eats his meal In Washington while the wife eats
hers In Greene, and they sleep with their heads
In one county and their feet in the other.
Dr. ELIZABETH BEATTY, of Indore, sent out by
the Presbyterian church in Canada as a medi-
cal missionary, has treated over 5000 patients in
the past twelve months, and thinks a hospital
and training school for Hindoo women would
make thousands of converts to Christianity.
SEvREs at the present moment employs ECO
hands, of which forty are artists proper, twenty
sculptors and as many painters. Some of
these are too much attached to the old school
of art TO look favorably upon the innovations
which their younger collaboratorS are anxious
to adopt
IT has heretofore been supposed that the i'm
PIGMENTS of jade found in British Columbia and
elsewhere on the Pacific coast, must be of Asiat-
&c origin, as the mineral was not known TO exist
III Western America, but powders of jade have
now been discovered in the valley of the Frazer
river, and jade also occurs in Alaska.
THE Toronto Mail learns that Premier Nor
quay, of Manitoba, has raised 81, 100000 on the
bonds of the province to be used in building the
Red river railroad. That ought to be money
enough, and the pluck and energy of the Mani
tooans ought to finish the line before the first
SHOWS whlten the level fields about Winnipeg
A PARTRIDGE was found in grass field in
Hockliffe, says the London Field that was rear
ing white barnyard chicken When the chick
en- was caught the bird evinced all the signs of
distress usually shown if their natural Offspring
are molested. The place where the bird was
found is nearly mile from any farm buildings.
ONE of the curiosities with the San Diego,
Cal exhibit at the st. Louis Grand Army Ma
tional Encampnent will be q GOO pound turtle
taken from the bay of Esenada dc Todos Santos,
in Lower California. After its huge proportions
have been sufficiently viewed by the gathered
thousands of boys in blue, turtle soup will be on
the bill of fare
A PLANT has been discovered in India which
is said to d stroy the power of tasting sugar
1t will be useful in counteracting a morbid
appetite for sweetmeats, which is an active
promoter of indigestion. Another plant found
In Madras destroys the relish for cigars and to-
bacco Thus twoimportant curatiyes are added
to the materia medica.
THE New York Commercial Bulletins fire
record for August shows total loss in the
United States and Canada of IS, 317, 500. against
Sl3,0O 1903 in August, 1856. The average August
losses for ten years have been about So 100000
The total losses for the first eight months of
1887 are S95, 2i5 800 against $40, 100000 for the
! corresponding period of 1885.
MISS Lucy SALMON the professor of history
| at VaSsar College, is a women with history be-
fore her. Her book, The Appointing Power of
the President" is the clearest monograph that
has appeared on that difficult subject, and is a
noteworthy production for one of the non-po-
Iltical sex Miss Salmon is a graduate of the
Michigan University, and fellow of Bryn Mawr
College.
GRANITE SHAFT recently quarried by the
Bodwell Granite Company in Vinalhaven Ne,
is the largest piece of stone ever quarried on
earth, and if erected will be the highest largest
and heaviest single piece of stone now standing
or that ever stood, so far there is any record
1t considerably exceeds in length any of the
Egyptian obelisks. The shaft is l15 feet long
10 feet square at the base, and weighs $50 tons
A REAL ESTATE SCHEME proposes grand ave
nue. to run from the Virginia shore, opposite
Washington, to the tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon. At present the grounds are
practically inaccessible by land approach so
that all visiting is done by a steamboat service
which enjoys very profitable monopoly. A
straight, fine avenue leading to Mount Vernon
from Washington would make new attraction
for the capital
THE sensbty of thermometers varies
greatly. If the capacity of the reservoir is
large, compared with the bore of the tube a
slight change OF temperature will materially
affect the height of the mercurial column If
small, and the glass bulb is thin the mercury
contained in it will he more rapidly affected
than If larger amount were to be act ed upon
A cylindrical reservoir is better than q spherical
one, because 1t exposes larger surface.
CANON TRIsTRAM has recently classified the
fishes to be found in the Sea of Galilee and has
announced strange discovery. He says these
fishes do not belong to the Mediterranean sys
TEN, but are peculiar. and belong to the fish
system of the great inland lakes of Africa
Tangauyika, Nyasa, and the neighborinfy waters
The Canon draws the inference that untold apt g
ago tue Jordan valley was filed by q lake which
was joined to the Red Sea, then a fresh water
lake, and which, in turn, was in direct communi-
cation with the great lake system of Central
Africa.
WILLIAM ALLEN, of San Francisco, a boy. shot
and wounded large hawk that was soaring
away with weasel in its talons After il fell
he hurried to pluck OF its large feathers, when
the bird suddenly threw its wings about his
body and sank its boak ferociously into his
cheek while both arms were pinoneJ Finally
he released one long enough to take out a
small pen-knife, with which he stabbed the
hawk The stabs had bat little effect. Fortu-
nately man, Martin WEIGH, came along and
rescued the young and almost exhausted hun.
ter lie will soon be all right again, bnt slight
scar will remain for life. The hawk measured
eight feet from wing to wing.
DR. CHARLES c, ABBOTT says that in experi
menting on the intelligence of birds when he
xiril aJ hro,